Switching
From 12twenty to Career Forge
12twenty is a university-first platform with a shared job network and a strong outcomes-reporting hub, used by undergraduate, business and law programs.
The short answer
Move if your career center runs its own fairs and employer list and wants postings under its own approval rules. Stay if your school's year turns on one-click ABA, NALP or MBA CSEA reports this year: 12twenty has them built, and Career Forge adds a standard's template on request.
What changes
Your own employers instead of a shared networkOn 12twenty's job network an employer posts once for exposure across schools. In Career Forge the employers are your records and the board holds what they post and you approve.12twenty: the job network
Outcomes reporting changes shape12twenty documents one-click NACE, MBA CSEA, ABA and NALP reports with an audit log and a survey-on-login prompt. Career Forge collects first destination with the NACE template and cohort email schedules, and reports through its report builder. A center that files ABA or NALP reports should weigh this first.12twenty: Outcome Data Analytics Hub
The fair gains invoicing and a kiosk12twenty's fair tools cover registration forms, payment collection, early-bird windows and QR check-in; invoicing, booth management and badge printing are not described on its site. Career Forge invoices every registration, assigns booths and prints badges at the door.12twenty: Career Services Hub
Job postings pass through your rules12twenty's board has a customizable post form; career-center approval of postings is not described on its site. In Career Forge every posting is approved or denied with a reason, or auto-approved per employer.12twenty: Career Services Hub
What moves over
| What | How |
|---|---|
| Students | Imported from a roster with the Candidate Data Import, with majors, school years and degree levels mapped to your picklists. Single sign-on means nobody gets a new password. |
| Employers and recruiters | Loaded from your list, so the employers you work with are in place before the first event opens. |
| Events | Set up fresh in Career Forge. An event is a few screens, and a copied event carries its questions and options to the next one. |
| Staff, coaches and topics | Created in the staff portal during setup, with each coach's topics, availability and calendar sync. |
| History | Past appointments, postings and registrations are not imported by default. Tell us what you need to keep, and we will say what can be loaded and what should stay as an export. |
When 12twenty is the right choice to keep
12twenty's value is outcomes reporting and the graduate-school footprint.
- One-click NACE, MBA CSEA, ABA and NALP reports with an audit log
- Survey-on-login for first-destination collection
- Business-school and law-school use cases and customers
Questions people ask
Students, imported from a roster and signing in through the university's identity provider; your employer list; staff, coaches and topics. Events are created fresh. 12twenty's site says you own 100% of your data and exports report data to Excel; bring those exports to the call.
The NACE First Destination Survey template and its export are built in. Career Forge's survey tool is template-based, so MBA CSEA, ABA or NALP templates and exports are built on request rather than off the shelf. A law or business school that files them this year should settle that on the call.
No. Students sign in with the university's own identity provider, so there is no new password.
Sources
- 12twenty: home page
- 12twenty for university career centers
- 12twenty: Career Services Hub
- 12twenty: Outcome Data Analytics Hub
- 12twenty: the job network
Statements about 12twenty come from its own site as read on the date in the source; tell us if one is out of date.
Plan the move from 12twenty
Bring your exports to the call; we will say what comes across.
